Method of applying designs to surfaces.



No. 84453.80. PATENTBFFEB. 19, 190?." D. B. MARWIGK.

METHOD OF APPLYING DESIGNS T0 SURFACES.

' APPLICATION FILED OUT. 3, 1906.

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DAVID-B. MARWICK, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE STANLEY WORKS, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

METHOD OFAPPLYI NG DESIGNS 'l'O SUFRFAGES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

Application filed October 3,1906- Serial No. 337,168.

I to Surfaces, of which the fo lowing is a full,

face for finis clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved method for finishing surfaces to give them an ornamental appearance or efiect.

Y The invention is particularly useful in connection with pucviding an ornamental surg plates for various ma.- chines, such as type-writers, cash-registers, adding-machines, and similar appliances. It ma also be used for producing orna-. menta surfaces on hardware of various kinds. It may also be used to simulate tile effects for hearths, and, in-fact, may be used wherever it is desired to produce an ornamental-surface effect.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the plate on which an ornamental design has con imposed. Fig. 2 is the model used to produce the design shown on Fig.4. F' .3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing anot er a plate, the design on which was impressed'at the same time the design on the plate in Fig. 1 was impressed. Fig. 4 isa diagrammatic view ofthe means employed for practicing the method.

In the particular form shownArepresents a sheet or plate of metal.

B represents what I will term a mode .the configuration of which represents the ornamental design which it is desired to imprint. The ornamental design on the plate A is produced by rolling-the model .B (shown in Fig. 2) into the same. The plate or sheet C (shown in Fig. 3) has the same design as the model and as shown on plate A. The

designs on plate A and plate C are made simultaneously by placing the model B between the same and rolling the two plates beeconomy is attained.

matically illustrated in Fig. 4. The pres- I sure of the rollson the outer sides of the two sheets causes the model B, which is placed between said sheets, to sink into the adj acent surfaces of the said sheets and leave permanently impressed therein a similar design. A very. handsome design may bethus impressed by the use of a simple wire mesh,v

such as employed for window-screens; It is preferable that the model should be formed of steel, although this is'not essential, since in practice I have found that a model of softermaterial than the plates may be successfully used. The model may take. any desired form and when placed between two sheets or plates is protected from any direct contact with the rolls, and the rolls are m turn protected from any direct contactwith the model, thereby is not only the model protected from any tearing action by the rolls,

but the rolls themselves are prevented from jury by contact with the model.

By my improved method of producing an ornamental surface two sheets may be $1- multaneously ornamented, and thus great What I claim is a 1. The method of producmgornamental surfaces on metallic plates or sheets, commodel of suitable desigp rising pl'ac' a lietween twd sfiieets or plates and then su jecting said sheets to a rolling pressure the pressing members bein spaced away from said model during sai pressing operation.

2. The method of producing ornamental surfaces on two sheets or plates simultaneously, comprising placing a model of suitable design directly between two sheets or plates and subjecting the same to pressure by rolls from opposite sidessaid rolls being spaced away from said model by said plates.

' DAVID B. MARWICK. Witnesses:

L. H. P. CARTER, JOHN D. POWERS. 

